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Re: Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells



On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, smb@execpc.com wrote:

> To whom it may concern:
> 
>   I recently installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my computer, and while I 
> was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh, 
> I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted.  Being 
> root, I was not restricted in the path choice that I made, so now 
> every time I log on as root, I get an error message that says 
> 'shell not found' and I am promptly logged off the system.  Is there 
> any way to correct this problem short of reinstalling everything 
> again?  I would greatly appreciate any help you could provide.

I think you can get su to work, but you may have to tell it what program
to run instead of the login shell.

HTH,
Brandon


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